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Post by slh1234 on Aug 12, 2011 2:51:52 GMT
Google black raspberry... This is likely what you picked as a child. Now your actually picking blackberries. Black raspberries are smaller and come early in the summer season. Blackberries come in late summer and can be the size of your thumb. Make sure you pick the black berries fully ripe. They will look almost dull and come off real easy. If not they are a bit bitter. They are best really ripe. Enjoy! Thank you for the well-wishes. We are DEFINITELY enjoying them. Those were definitely not black raspberries I picked as a child. www.ehow.com/about_5434743_blackberries-vs-black-raspberries.htmlThe easiest way to tell the two apart is whether the center stays with the berry when you pick it ripe. A black raspberry will separate from the center and will look hollow. The center stays with the blackberry when it is picked. (One of my aunts planted a small patch of black raspberries when I was young. That's how I knew the difference as a child.) I don't think we actually have any black raspberries wild in NE Oklahoma. I think they do grow wild in the land that was originally the Cherokee land in the Carolinas, Tenessee, Georgia and Virginia, but that's not the Cherokee country I grew up in. Different varieties in different climes will ripen at different times. In Oklahoma, the wild blackberries start ripening in June, and are finished by mid to late July, depending on rainfall. You can probably also google the combination of Blackberries and Oklahoma to find discussion on this.
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 12, 2011 22:48:04 GMT
I don't know how to explain it, but the weather as of late is feeling like an Indian Summer as we call it locally. An Indian Summer usually occurs after a hard hard freeze......weeks with nice warm days and cool nights. I am on pins and needles hopeing for at least 60 more frost free days, but I just don't think that is going to happen.
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Post by boxman on Aug 13, 2011 3:18:42 GMT
Another night of frost here in Norway. Here in trondheim the temp dropped to 5c while in some areas it dropped below 0c even though average minimum for that part of country should be around 10c this time of year.
Winter came early this year it seems ;\
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Post by boxman on Aug 14, 2011 18:12:33 GMT
And now summer suddenly came back on a surprise visit again. Minimum temp never went below 14c last night and today we had a nice 23c in shade.
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Post by flearider on Aug 15, 2011 8:05:40 GMT
yep the new term is ... the yo-yo effect ... lol we are getting loads of wind then day or two of calm then back to the wind ..
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Post by nonentropic on Aug 15, 2011 8:40:08 GMT
We get days of rain then sun is this climate disruption?
I am simply worried.
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Post by boxman on Aug 15, 2011 20:06:08 GMT
And now we are having the heaviest august rain in decade(s) according to local newspaper which seems to have just started as it is pouring down outside now.
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 15, 2011 21:17:31 GMT
boxman: Which crystal ball were they looking at when they published this?
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Post by boxman on Aug 16, 2011 0:49:10 GMT
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Post by dc51 on Aug 17, 2011 0:11:10 GMT
It's officially the coldest summer here in Ireland in over 40 years. And like byz, my tomato crop is not too impressive. Plenty of tomatos but all green.
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 17, 2011 0:25:51 GMT
dc51: At least you can pluck them and put them in a southern window. And in fact...ever read the book Fried Green Tomatoes? It is a great read.
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Post by boxman on Aug 17, 2011 18:54:43 GMT
Seems like the flooding here turned out to be a event that only happens once every 100-200 years.
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Post by saturnv on Aug 18, 2011 18:13:24 GMT
Lovely day here in southern UK flash floods in Bournemouth and Dorset and I'm not sure if my Volvo is winding me up but a trip out mid-afternoon reached the heady heights of 12c. Winter has come early here! I seem to remember those temps. mid January 5/6 years ago.
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Post by slh1234 on Aug 19, 2011 5:30:37 GMT
Following up on my earlier posts in this thread, the cool damp summer here has been great for the wild blackberries. Our freezer is full, my wife has made about 36 pints of jam and jelly, we've had cobblers, smoothies, and just raw berries. We actually went out again this evening, and were able to pick somewhere between 4 and 5 gallons in about 2 hours. I'm afraid that I've been adding greenhouse gasses to the air because of all of this. I've put my second batch of blackberry wine into primary fermentation, and both batches have been producing quite a few CO2 bubbles carrying that wonderful aroma of fermenting berries back into the utility room. I have so many berries still that I'm going to have to buy another container and start another batch and that means more CO2 being released by that nasty ole yeast. Can I be excused for the release of CO2 in such an exercise? I mean, it's still been over 80 degrees F here for less than 2 hours total this year .
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Post by stranger on Aug 19, 2011 22:56:56 GMT
Sigurdur, the fried green tomatoes are pretty good, if you like "love apples." I do not care for the tomate's so I generally give them a pass. But find a good recipe from the deep south and try some. You will probably like them. Me? I prefer some of the food I used to buy at the North Dakota State Fair.
Stranger
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